Ralph Watches as a Customer with at Least 40 Items

question 79

Multiple Choice

Ralph watches as a customer with at least 40 items lines up at his express checkout line.He decides the customer must be a real "idiot" to miss the sign that indicates Ralph's checkout line is an express line with a limit of 10 items.What is illustrated by this example

• A) self-serving bias 
• B) illusory correlation 
• C) defensive attribution 
• D) fundamental attribution error

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